RESEARCH
RESEARCH
"The Life Cycle of International Courts: Rise and Demise of the Appellate Body" with Jeff Kucik and Sergio Puig. 2026. in The Life Cycles of Global Governance, Julia Gray, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
"Rewriting Precedent: How International Adjudicators Influence Compliance" with Jeff Kucik and Sergio Puig. 2025. Michigan Journal of International Law 46(2): 283--336.
"Legalization and Compliance: How Judicial Activity Undercuts the Global Trade Regime" with Jeff Kucik and Sergio Puig. 2023. British Journal of Political Science 53(1): 221--238 (appendix; replication).
Delivering on Promises: The Domestic Politics of Compliance in International Courts. 2022. University of Chicago Press.
"Local Labor Markets and Party Elite: Crafting Trade Policy in the United States House of Representatives" with Adrienne Hosek. 2022. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 17(4): 451--489 (appendix; replication).
"Enduring the Great Recession: Economic Integration in the European Union" with Thomas Flaherty, Ron Rogowski, and Ryan Weldzius. 2022. Review of International Organizations 17(1): 175--203 (appendix; replication).
"How do Third Parties Affect Compliance in the Trade Regime?" with Jeff Kucik. 2021. Journal of Politics 83(3): 1184-1189 (appendix; replication).
"When are International Institutions Effective? The Impact of Domestic Veto Players on Compliance with WTO Rulings" 2020. International Studies Quarterly 64(1): 220-234 (appendix; replication).
"Obstructing Integration: The European Court of Justice and the Domestic Politics of Compliance" 2018. European Union Politics 19(3): 427-257 (appendix; replication).
"The Design of Trade Agreements" with Leslie Johns. 2015. In the Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Trade, Lisa Martin, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
"Uncovering Public Health Priorities at the World Health Organization" with Katheryn Russ, Carl Stahmer, Xiao Hui Tai, Nick Ulle. Under review.
Abstract: Government delegates convene each year in the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, to set a global health agenda. They allocate scarce resources for crisis response and long-term programs. With thousands of diplomatic statements on diverse topics, the systematic analysis of WHA meetings has remained a challenge for researchers. We address this gap using natural language processing. We extract and classify thousands of delegate statements across seven major health issues using fine-tuned BERT models, which in our case demonstrate superior results over several large language models and are known to provide opportunities for interpretability. We show in the context of public health governance how to remedy the long-standing interpretability problem by analyzing final embedding layers to reveal how classification determinations are made in the BERT-based models. Analysis of just one of the seven topics in our database quantifies tensions between industrialized and developing countries around infectious disease mitigation. By quantifying the incidence and participation in WHA deliberations, our research opens new pathways to support transparency in global health governance.
"Commercial Representation? A Text Analysis of US Industry Interests in the World Health Assembly" with Katheryn Russ, Carl Stahmer, Xiao Hui Tai, Nick Ulle.
"Do Preferential Trade Agreements Increase Trade at Intensive and Extensive Margins? Evidence from a Network Analysis" with Jiani Lu.
“A Machine Learning Approach to Classifying Immigration Legislation in U.S. Congress” with Stephen Liao.
"The European Court of Justice as Political Cover: National Decisions on Referrals" with Leslie Johns.